Awarded Grants
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. The vast majority of the grants made by Open Society are to organizations, but we also award a limited number of grants to individuals, primarily through scholarships and fellowships offered across a number of different programs.
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Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative (CUCI)
2019$7,500Descriptionto support an educational symposium on developing union co-ops
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term1 month
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
CommonWise Education Inc.
2019$300,000Descriptionto leverage Bronx assets to build collective ownership and wealth at scale for low-income communities of color
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term18 months
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Fellowship
2019$128,000Descriptionto develop the principles of a new form of worker organisation that could support and protect workers in this current technological/ industrial revolution. There will be three lines of enquiry: participative engagement with workers; a convening of the ‘new industrialists’ i.e. those who are playing a prominent role in shaping the new economy; engagement with existing unions.
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term1 year
RegionEurope
United States
Ownership Futures Ltd.
2019$130,335Descriptionto advance the education of the general public, including but not limited to policy makers, through research, publication, and advocacy in respect of a set of reports by Common Wealth and co-authors focusing on transforming business ownership and reshaping control of data and digital technologies. The reports will be supported by a range of digital outputs, from videos to animated explainers to podcasts, as well as by a comprehensive media and policy influencing strategy. This is with a view to ensuring decent work and good economic opportunities are regionally spread, and distressed communities previously ‘left behind’ by the economy, are not targeted with low paid and precarious work
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term2 years
RegionEurope
United States
Project On Government Oversight, Inc.
2019$475,000Descriptionto provide general support
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Economic Equity & Justice
Human Rights Movements & Institutions
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Open Society-U.S.
Term1 year
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Public Citizen Foundation
2019$20,000Descriptionto support the grantee to perform public opinion research on trade agreements on a number of rights issues, including drug prices
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term6 months
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Rutgers University Foundation
2019$83,000Descriptionto support the Grantee's Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing work on a conference, educational programming and research on worker ownership and unions
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term15 months
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
The Democracy Collaborative Foundation Inc.
2019$150,000Descriptionto support a national network of place-based, multi-stakeholder collaboratives in building and advancing a democratic economy
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term1 year
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
The Democracy Collaborative Foundation Inc.
2019$114,425Descriptionto support the development of a multi-faceted policy playbook on innovations in public ownership
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term1 year
RegionEurope
United States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City
2019$1,220,000Descriptionto promote the advancement of education and provide relief for low-income and disadvantaged workers in NY City by providing support to develop economic democracy initiatives, and pilot/scale shared business ownership models in the city of New York, with an explicit focus on new ownership models that improve the pay and benefits for low-income workers, and support ownership of new businesses by women and minorities in major employment sectors in New York City
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term2 years
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
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